Three Tesla employees killed in twin-engine plane crash
Very sad news to report this morning related to a plane crash in East Palo Alto, California, on Wednesday. A plane owned by Doug Bourn, senior electrical engineer for Tesla Motors, veered off course just after taking off in heavy fog and crashed into a neighborhood killing all three Tesla employees on board. Although four houses were damaged, no one on the ground was injured. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla issued the following statement:
“Three Tesla employees were on board a plane that crashed in East Palo Alto early this morning. We are withholding their identities as we work with the relevant authorities to notify the families. Our thoughts and prayers are with them. Tesla is a small, tightly-knit company, and this is a tragic day for us.”
Although not technically rock stars, the engineers that produced the Tesla Roadster, the first production electric vehicle manufactured around lithium-Ion batteries, certainly rocked the automotive world. Tragic, indeed.
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Posted: February 18th, 2010
at 8:38am by Thomas Ricker
Topics: Crash, EastPaloAlto, ElonMusk, TeslaMotors, airplane, death, east palo alto, elon musk, tesla, tesla motors
Pensioners Attacked by Space Junk and/or Aliens [Space]
What weights four pounds, is made of metal, and crashes through roofs at supersonic speeds? If you are an retired couple living in West Hull, Britain, the Royal Air Force says that’s a chunk of space junk.
Nobody knows from what satellite or spacecraft this exactly came from, but the RAF’s Defence Flying Complaints Investigation Team says that it definitely came from space. They say that its heavy mass indicates that it has been up in a decaying orbit for a decade or more.
Great. As if we didn’t have enough with all that space junk risking the life of astronauts up there. [Daily Mail]
